Hello, and welcome everyone. I, The Bug Catcher, shall tell you a tale not yet explored. A tale of two worlds. A tale of might and magic. A tale of epic scope. This is a Total war: Warhammer and Fairy Tail Fanfiction Crossover. Enjoy.
I do not own nor have I ever owned Total War: Warhammer or Fairy Tail. That honor belongs to Creative Assembly, Sega, Games Workshop and Hiro Mashima.
"For as long as I can remember, the jungles of the continent of Lustria and what dwells within has always fascinated me. Ever since I was a child, my father would tell me tales of his seafaring adventures to that mysterious continent, telling me of golden temples and ziggurats towering high above the canopy, hiding ancient secrets and more treasure than could ever be found in the Old World.
I loved his stories and always begged him to take me with him on his grand adventures, but he would simply smile and say maybe next time. He always said that. Soon enough I discovered that his stories were just that, stories.
He never went to Lustria. He never even left the Old World. The farthest he had ever been was down to the Tilean Sea to trade furs from Kislev. His 'adventures' being merely gossip and tall tales from other travelers.
At first, I was disappointed and angry at my father for telling me lies, making himself a great adventurer through his tales instead of the truth, himself being a simple merchant.
But after a day or two, I grew out of my anger and in its place grew a burning curiosity. A need to know if the tales that my father told were actually true or not. After all, every story has some basis in fact, be it only a small inkling.
So there began what would become my life's work, discover the secrets of Lustria. Though I didn't know how or where to begin.
It was during my days as a young scholar at the Imperial Library in Altdorf that I found my start. Papers, Treatises and diaries of those brave or foolish few who actually delved into Lustria's heart and came out alive, only for most of them to die a few days later from one of the jungles numerous diseases.
While reading these accounts, I came across a particularly interesting one by Ibn Jellaba. An Arabyan explorer who discovered and established trading relations with the Lizardmen city of Zlatlan, otherwise known as The Hidden City.
It was his accounts that changed my perspective of my work which then shifted my fascination from Lustria to the Lizardmen themselves.
For the next twelve years of my life, I traveled to both the Southlands and Lustria, collecting every bit of information I could about this ancient race. Alas, an incursion into a Lustrian ruin cut my research days short when a cold-one crushed my right leg in its jaws. I survived, of course, though I have never been able to regain the full use of my leg, forever giving me a limp.
So I returned to Altdorf, settled down and had a family, along with also becoming the Imperial Library's resident expert on the Lizardmen.
While I wasn't able to discover as much as I would have wanted about the secrets of the Lizardmen, I am content.
I will be able to tell my children tales of my adventures, and it will be the absolute truth.
That is all I ever wanted in the end."
Randolf Ober, Scholar of The Imperial Library
Year 2501 of the Imperial Calendar
THE LIZARDMEN CHRONICLES
A WARHAMMER & FAIRY TAIL FANFICTION CROSSOVER
BY
THE BUG CATCHER